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Critical examination of recent assertions by Logo (2013) about the paper ‘Analytical and numerical solutions for a reliability based benchmark example’ (Rozvany and Maute 2011)

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The aim of this Authors’ Reply is to examine critically certain assertions by Logo in a Discussion and in two conference papers about a publication by Rozvany and Maute on a reliability based benchmark example

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  1. The only parameter to be optimized is the ratio of cross-sectional areas of the vertical bar and that of the two sloping bars (symmetric problem). Then the compliance constraint can be satisfied as equality by linear scaling.

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Acknowledgments

The Authors gratefully acknowledge the following contributions. The analytical solutions in Fig. 2 and Table 1 were derived independently by Tomasz Sokół and Vanda Pomezanski. Language-editing of the above text was done by Susann Pihl. Section 4 on probabilistic aspects is due to the second author.

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    George Rozvany

  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

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An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00158-013-1016-4.

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Rozvany, G., Maute, K. Critical examination of recent assertions by Logo (2013) about the paper ‘Analytical and numerical solutions for a reliability based benchmark example’ (Rozvany and Maute 2011). Struct Multidisc Optim 48, 1213–1220 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-013-0989-3

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